On more than one occasion I have been asked about how best to produce a web site for somebody’s club. Here’s one solution.

The aim of this article is to show you how to make a web site for your organisation for free using Google Sites. It will demand minimal expertise, not much more than basic word processing, and more than one person can have access to add content to the site.The information could all be obtained through Google, but this will give you a step-by-step guide to building a site without having to trawl through lots of help pages.

Download the full article in pdf format to print out (2.4 Mb). It’s 18 pages long, but the majority is made up of screen shots so that you can see what to do.

I have produced an example web site to go with the article. This also contains some further advice, such as how to optimise photographs and how to convert documents to pdf format.
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